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$5M PRIZE PURSE GOES BEGGING

It seems there’s no taker for $5m!

The panel for the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa, supposedly the world's most valuable individual prize apparently hasn’t found any suitable awardee.

The massive prize purse is meant to be awarded each year to a democratically elected leader who has voluntarily left office.

There was also no winner in 2009 and 2010.

Cape Verde President Pedro Verona Pires won the award last year.

Emirates has been awarded the highly coveted 'World's Best Airline' award. Company officials were presented the prize by Skytrax at the Paris Airshow.
The Al Sufouh Tram project is on track to open in November next year. The RTA says 62% of the construction work has been completed.
The UAE and Australia have signed an agreement to help them both combat human trafficking.

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